Say Yes to Less: How to Crush People-Pleasing, Set Better Boundaries & Stop Burning Out with Dr. Emily Jacobs

Say Yes to Less: How to Crush People-Pleasing, Set Better Boundaries & Stop Burning Out with Dr. Emily Jacobs

Friend, when is the last time you said no without guilt? When is the last time someone texted you and you didn't immediately drop everything to respond? When is the last time you said yes to something and actually meant it because it aligned with your soul instead of your people-pleasing? This episode is for every ambitious woman who has been saying yes to everything and wondering why she is running on empty. Dr. Emily Jacobs is a doctorate-prepared board-certified nurse coach, TEDx speaker, national bestselling author, Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses alumni, and founder of Empowered Moms. She built an entire movement out of a personal pain point, watching her mom quietly give up on her own life, and she is here today to make sure you don't do the same. Say yes to less. Less people-pleasing. Less burnout. Less waiting for approval. More of YOU.  In This Episode You'll Learn: * What Say Yes to Less actually means and why it is not about having less ambition * The three-step framework for better boundaries, pause, consider your choices, act in alignment * Why your quick response addiction might be burning you out faster than anything else * The one question to ask instead of saying yes or no on the spot and why it changes everything * Why Dr. Emily started Empowered Moms with four people in her living room and what happened next * How to train your kids, starting at age two, to figure things out without you * Why the people on the inside of your home get whatever is left after you say yes to everyone outside * The blood pressure analogy that will completely reframe how you think about rest and recovery * Why self-doubt and fear are the real things keeping ambitious women stuck * What it looks like to reclaim your identity as a high-achieving mom without burning it all down About Dr. Emily Jacobs: Dr. Emily Jacobs is a doctorate-prepared board-certified nurse coach, TEDx speaker, national bestselling author, and founder of Empowered Moms. After 20+ years in healthcare she resigned from what no longer aligned with her purpose and built her own practice helping women across the country design purpose-driven lives. She is the author of Live Your Life for You, Not Your Mom and the upcoming Empowered Moms collaborative book releasing July 2026. 📲 Follow Dr. Emily: @dremilyjacobs [https://www.instagram.com/dremilyjacobs/] 🌐 Website: Empowered Moms Home [https://empoweredmoms.co/] 📚 Live Your Life for You, Not Your Mom, available now 📚 Empowered Moms Collaborative Book, releasing July 2026 🎉 Empowered Moms Conference, October 2026, Detroit Michigan If you’re ready to scale with the right people around you, explore the For His Glory CEO Inner Circle. Apply Here: 2026 Inner Circle Application [https://forms.gle/bmcBFTt8vvf4v1dv7] 📲 Connect with Ali: Instagram: @alispitsbergen [https://www.instagram.com/alispitsbergen] For His Glory CEO Community: Join the For His Glory CEO Community TODAY! [https://buy.stripe.com/dRmcN61pE6ZU9NK9Bv9MY0s]

Why I'm All In on AI: The 3 Tools That Are Blowing My Mind & Scaling My Business

We either adapt or we get left behind, and friend, I am not getting left behind. I have been all in on AI for over a year now and what it has done for my business, my copy, my team, and my capacity is genuinely mind blowing. In this episode I am breaking down the three tools I am using right now that every faith-driven female entrepreneur needs to know about. In This Episode You'll Learn: * Why Claude is better than ChatGPT for copywriting and how connecting it to your Google Drive is a total game changer * How I used 13 years of documented work to build a keynote that blew my own mind * The Growth Advisory Board prompt that takes emotion out of your biggest business decisions * Why AI is helping me scale my team, launch more live events, and serve my clients at a higher level * Why your attitude around AI might be the thing holding your business back * How faith-driven women have a massive opportunity right now to use AI for good The 3 Tools: 1. Claude — connect it to your Google Drive, your emails, your Canva. Let it learn your voice and watch what happens 2. The Growth Advisory Board Prompt — drop every bottleneck in your business here and watch the round table go to work  3. Your mindset — own your attitude. Capture the thought. Renew it with truth. This is the CROWN Framework in action Resources & Mentions: * 🤖 Claude — claude.ai * 📋 Growth Advisory Board Prompt  [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VhEhI_tlsv6tkM5RZg8F9pHDdlv6PHBgh3e9HWs32EE/edit?usp=sharing] If you’re ready to scale with the right people around you, explore the For His Glory CEO Inner Circle. Apply Here: 2026 Inner Circle Application [https://forms.gle/bmcBFTt8vvf4v1dv7] 📲 Connect with Ali: Instagram: @alispitsbergen [https://www.instagram.com/alispitsbergen] For His Glory CEO Community: Join the For His Glory CEO Community TODAY! [https://buy.stripe.com/dRmcN61pE6ZU9NK9Bv9MY0s]

The Soul Behind the Sale: Why Relationship Equity Is the Only Business Strategy That Lasts

Sales Girl Summer is here, and it has nothing to do with DMs. It has everything to do with relationships. This episode is my challenge to you; put down the keyboard, pick up the phone, go meet people, and invest in the souls behind the sales. Because I promise you, the businesses that last are built on trust, not tactics. 💛 In This Episode You'll Learn: * Why referrals are the most powerful marketing strategy and how trust builds them * The FORD acronym that will change every sales conversation you have this summer * Why one in four businesses fail and the one thing that separates the ones that don't * Why picking up the phone is still the most powerful thing you can do in business in 2026 * How to build relationship equity that translates into a profitable business every single time * Why the soul behind the sale matters more than the sale itself The FORD Acronym: * F — Family * O — Occupation * R — Recreation * D — Dreams If you’re ready to scale with the right people around you, explore the For His Glory CEO Inner Circle. Apply Here: 2026 Inner Circle Application [https://forms.gle/bmcBFTt8vvf4v1dv7] 📲 Connect with Ali: Instagram: @alispitsbergen [https://www.instagram.com/alispitsbergen] For His Glory CEO Community: Join the For His Glory CEO Community TODAY! [https://buy.stripe.com/dRmcN61pE6ZU9NK9Bv9MY0s]

Revenue First: The Daily Schedule of a High-Achieving Mom, Wife & CEO

You asked. I'm answering. When I posted on my Facebook page asking what question you'd ask me if I handed you the mic, this was the first one that came in, and honestly it comes up all the time. What does a day in the life of Ali actually look like? So here it is. Raw, real, no sugarcoating. From 4AM to lights out, exactly how I structure my waking hours to build a business I love, raise four incredible humans, love my husband well, and still take care of myself. Success leaves clues, and today I'm handing you mine.  In This Episode You'll Learn: * Why I wake up at 4:07AM and what the first hour of my day actually looks like * The pre-workout habit I picked up at 46 that has changed everything for my hormones and energy * Why I do hair, makeup, and heels even when I work from home and why it matters more than you think * What Sales Girl Hour is and why revenue in first position is non-negotiable in my business * How I use Airtable to track my sales activity and hold myself accountable every single day * Why I never respond to messages and emails first thing in the morning and what I do instead * How I structure client fulfillment and what it actually looks like to serve my Inner Circle at the highest level * Why giving clients one win quickly is more powerful than giving them 55 things to do * What my after-school routine looks like and why I plan for the whole week not just the day * The Bath Bible Bed routine that anchors our evenings as a family * Why choosing your hard is the most honest thing I can say about health, marriage, and business * What weekends look like when you are in church leadership and your husband is the worship leader * Why instead of saying "I don't have time" I say "it's not a priority" and why that changes everything My Daily Schedule: 4:07AM — Wake up with Joshua. Salt water, light coffee with caramel macchiato protein powder, Bible time together 5:15AM — Burn Bootcamp Rooster Club. Lift heavy. No chatting. 7:00AM — Kids up, breakfast made, lunches packed, out the door 7:00AM — Church prayer slot. Word and prayer before the workday starts Shower & get ready — Hair, makeup, earrings, heels. Every single day. First work block — Sales Girl Hour. Revenue in first position. Always. Second work block — Team WhatsApp, copy, client onboarding, messaging Third work block — Client fulfillment. Monthly audits, offer building, messaging, clarity Last work block — Admin, nitty gritty, the stuff I hate. Always last. 4:00PM — Kids home. Done working. Afterschool snack, homework, week planning 5:30PM — Dinner as a family. Highs, challenges, solutions. No phones. Bedtime — Bath Bible Bed. Kids in bed by 8:00PM. 8:00-9:00PM — Joshua and I. In bed by 8:30-9:00PM. Tools & Resources Mentioned: * 📱 Airtable — AI integrated tracking system for sales activity * 📱 Be Present App — block distractions during working hours * 📱 The Brick — phone lockbox for focus and discipline * 🎙️ Marriage Made in Heaven Podcast [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/marriage-made-in-heaven/id1825242845] If you’re ready to scale with the right people around you, explore the For His Glory CEO Inner Circle. Apply Here: 2026 Inner Circle Application [https://forms.gle/bmcBFTt8vvf4v1dv7] 📲 Connect with Ali: Instagram: @alispitsbergen [https://www.instagram.com/alispitsbergen] For His Glory CEO Community: Join the For His Glory CEO Community TODAY! [https://buy.stripe.com/dRmcN61pE6ZU9NK9Bv9MY0s]

Never Give Up: How Sharelle Mendenhall Went from Tragedy to National Title to Full-Time Ministry

Friend, I met this woman 48 hours before I recorded this episode. I knew within minutes of our first conversation that I had to get her on this podcast immediately. Sharelle Mendenhall is Mrs. USA 2024, a full-time evangelist, a woman who has walked through things that would break most people and she is still standing, still shining, still full of fire. Her sister went missing for five years. They found her body a couple of years ago. Her stepson severed his spine in a snowboarding accident and is now a paraplegic. The month before that her husband was diagnosed with skin cancer. And from his hospital bed her stepson told her, never give up. So she didn't. She went on to win the national title. And then she walked away from her company of over 10 years to go into full-time evangelism and never look back. This episode is fire. In This Episode You'll Learn: * Sharelle's extraordinary story, from being born with her twin inside her to Mrs. USA 2024 to full-time evangelist * Why she says the Holy Spirit is her business partner and what that unfair advantage actually looks like * What Pentecost at any cost means and why the gifts of the Holy Spirit are more important than ever right now * The science behind praying in tongues and why a specific part of the brain only fires when you pray that way * Why her stepson's words from his hospital bed, never give up, changed everything for her * How she won her first pageant ever without any training and what happened when she prayed backstage * The three things that drive her spirit of excellence; discipline, obedience, and writing the vision * Why busy is a four-letter word and how to divide between what is good and what is God * How to fall in love with the Word of God even if you don't know where to start * The posture of desperation in prayer and why sometimes you need to be like Hannah and not move until God blesses you * Why your sob story and your pain cannot be your only story, the victory is on the other side About Sharelle Mendenhall: Sharelle Mendenhall is Mrs. USA 2024, a full-time evangelist, speaker, and author of the upcoming book The Power of Keeping Your Word. She is passionate about Pentecost at any cost, helping women walk in the fullness of the Holy Spirit, the power of prayer, and the Word of God. After more than 10 years in business Sharelle is stepping into full-time evangelism to seek and save those who are lost. 📲 Follow Sharelle: @sharellemendenhall  [https://www.instagram.com/sharellemendenhall/] Sharelle's 3 Keys to a Spirit of Excellence: 1. Discipline — Keep your word to yourself. Write things down. Make every minute count. 2. Obedience — Know what you are called to and who you are called to. You don't have to say yes to everything. 3. Write the Vision — Habakkuk 2:2. Write it out. Make it plain. Partner with God and the Holy Spirit constantly. Resources & Mentions: * 📚 The Power of Keeping Your Word — Sharelle's upcoming book * 📖 Habakkuk 2:2 — Write the vision and make it plain If you’re ready to scale with the right people around you, explore the For His Glory CEO Inner Circle. Apply Here: 2026 Inner Circle Application [https://forms.gle/bmcBFTt8vvf4v1dv7] 📲 Connect with Ali: Instagram: @alispitsbergen [https://www.instagram.com/alispitsbergen] For His Glory CEO Community: Join the For His Glory CEO Community TODAY! [https://buy.stripe.com/dRmcN61pE6ZU9NK9Bv9MY0s]